Opportunity Maine is a new program that will make college more affordable for Maine students. Beginning with any loans that a student takes in January 2008, he or she will be eligible to claim a large tax credit to pay student loans after they graduate. Businesses are also eligible for the tax credit if they agree to pay a students’ loan. To be eligible, graduates must work and pay taxes in Maine after they finish school — but there are no restrictions on leaving Maine for graduate school or programs such as the Peace Corps. This program is the first of its kind in the country — it’s the way education should be. Learn more about the program, sign up for updates on how you can enroll, and other benefits by going to www.opportunitymaine.org
This is the full five (5) hours of hour of the Fri27-Sat28 May 2011 espisode of Coast To Coast AM: www.CoastToCoastam.com -and the audio was recorded off the air by Youtube user MrSuperPotatoTomato www.youtube.com www.youtube.com PS: There appear to be gaps or breaks, but I had to put in audio that was missing — and I used the channel of www.youtube.com and audio from sources such as this link: www.youtube.com It is believed that this show is not posted in violation of copyright, based on a close scrutiny of the ‘Copyright’ link on Coast To Coast’s website: www.premiereinteractive.com which says in relevant part that I “may not, and agree that you will not, reproduce…products obtained from or through this Clear Channel Website, in whole or in part, without the express written permission of Clear Channel.” Since this was obtained off air (you can hear the sound quality of this file -and also another file from this user -which has the radio station’s FCC id, etc.), then it seems exempt. Furthermore, it is only a small part of the whole, and it’s believed this is covered by Fair Use. Lastly, since many others are posting much more than this small snippet, it seems that it is OK. Anyhow, here is what the show details: Comments: I normally don’t buy into conspiracies, but this one qualifies. See also the related clip on this channel. Student Loan Scam – Fri 27 – Sat 28 May 2011 Host: Ian Punnett Guests: Alan Collinge In the first hour, Ian Punnett welcomed the founder of …
MP3 www.4shared.com Guests: Alan Collinge Student Loan Scam: During the first hour, Ian Punnett welcomed the founder of StudentLoanJustice.org, Alan Collinge, who discussed how federal student loans have become predatory, turning a generation into debtor slaves. “It’s a socially horrible epidemic,” he declared, noting that America’s total student loan debt now surpasses the nation’s credit card debt. He explained that student loans are particularly pernicious because they contain no consumer safeguards such as bankruptcy protection, statute of limitations, or the ability to re-finance the debt in an open market. As a result of these factors, Collinge said, when a loan is defaulted, it can double or even triple due to penalties and fees. In looking at the source of the problem, Collinge pointed to student loan advocates and the Department of Education as the key entities that “failed to play their part” in overseeing lending practices. According to him, the DOE has been using a faulty metric to determine the default rate on student loans, thus misleading Congress into increasing the allowable limits on colleges for lending. Additionally, Collinge said, the DOE actually makes “about 22% versus what they pay out” for defaulted student loans. In order to fix the student loan epidemic, Collinge endorsed restoring bankruptcy protections for these loans. Should that happen, he said, “a multitude of problems” will resolve themselves, including an “almost overnight” drop in …
MSNBC host Cenk Uygur speaks with Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) about the role of government, federal income tax, military spending, credit, education, unions and more.
realestatemarketingthisweek.com – Foreclosure rates on Forbearance Agreements done with banks reaches 58% – Part 3 – In studio with us today on this fine New years eve is Dan Havey, the co founder of the modification hotline as well as the author of The Foreclosure Sharks a great white paper he put together. He is also the author of Real Estates Future and this segment we are talking about loan modifications and some specific information. You also have a great story to tell about this to. Well unfortunately I have too many stories about people who have had to go through foreclosures, bankruptcies, loan modifications. The one story I want to talk about real quick is a friend of mine who unbeknownst to me went out and did a loan modification on her own and not to get into a whole bunch of technical details on it she ended up getting a pretty decent interest rate because they actually cut her mortgage payment in half and she was pretty happy about that. She owed a little bit more than the house was worth, she wasnt terribly upside down, but by the time they got done with her she certainly was going to be because the modification, and actually I should not call it a modification, I should call it a forbearance agreement, what they did to her was to say, OK we will cut your interest rate in half, we will cut your monthly payment in half, but we will take all of that deferred interest and tack it onto the back end of the loan. So that by the time her interest rate went back to …
Mail this post